Actually got an inch of rain from the storm the other day. And at the moment we are getting some sprinkles.

We bought a sewing machine from Amazon.com over the weekend and got it yesterday. After I study how to do machine quilting, I will start a small quilt. Machine quilting it something I have wanted to do for some time so I am very excited.

Saw coverage of a California car chase while watching TV this afternoon. Wish there was a channel devoted just to car chases. I don't know why, but I find them fun to watch.

We got a least a couple storms roll through yesterday, I'd say we got at least half an inch. Will know for sure when I check the rain gauge later this morning. The storms this year seem to be a bit stronger then what we are use to. There was a nasty storm that hit along the Texas-Mexico border the other day that was a deadly one. Winter was a bit of a dry one and the spring is what I would call a slightly wet one, we could have more storms but I don't think Mother Nature has it in for us.

Been having strange dreams lately, but of course I forget much of them as soon as I wake up. All I am left with is fleeting images that don't mean squat.

Looks like we might actually get some rain today. We could use it and the rain has been forecasted for practically every day this week and hasn't shown up.

Some recent obits to take notice of...Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstram, Kitty Carlisle, Barry Nelson, Kurt Vonnegut and George Jenkins.

After fun at the dentist, we headed to the zoo. But the crowd was bigger than we had seen out there in some time and didn't feel like standing in line for an hour just to get in. So we left and went home. Watched some movies we had rented yesterday.

Mom has the day off, so we are going to take care of a few things. She has a dentists appointment tomorrow and we may do something after we are done there.

Don Ho passed away over the weekend, no more tiny bubbles for him. May he rest in a Hawaii heaven.

Tragedy at Virgina Tech, 33 people including the gunman dead.

The storms over the weekend left flooding, snow and death in their wake.

The snow never came to us in Kansas City Kansas. While some parts of the state did get some of the white stuff, we lucked out.

Weird week so far.

Nixed to idea of trying to see a movie since I had lost interest in seeing the movie I was never really hot about seeing in the first place. I know of at least three movies I do want to see this year, but regardless of that I am unsure when we will see another movie. What I dislike is spending money to see something just to see something. I will do it in the summer just to get out of the house, but I prefer to avoid doing that often.

Cooler weather came back for a period and although I didn't mind it, it did hurt everything blooming. Supposedly, it will return to more normal spring weather next week. This is despite have a potential for snow tomorrow.

Monday the high was around eighty-three, Tuesday high was around fifty-three and I think today's high is going to top out at about forty-five degrees or so. On top of that, there is a freeze warning and a chance of snow. And you read that all correctly.

Mom's dental plan at work sucks. Shes over the maximum allowed coverage for the year, so all the dental work she still needs done is coming out of our pockets. And we will get billed by the dentists office for what we owe, because both us and the office thought most everything was going to be covered. To bad some of this stuff hadn't been taken care of last year, at least the pinch wouldn't be so bad. Well we've talked quite a bit about doing better with the finances and everything and we will have to be doing real well until we get past this patch.

Will be going to a movie tonight. Was going to go Monday night, but the times didn't sync up. I wish there better movie schedules.

Got three quarters of an inch of rain in a quick thunderstorm Tuesday morning.

From Thursday through to Sunday morning, we got one and three quarters inches worth of rain. And we needed every drop too, so I am not complaining. Saturday is was rather windy for a bit. Yesterday was quite beautiful.

Have had some strange dreams lately. Two involved travel and two involved children. In one travel dream, I was in an airport with my Dad ( who I haven't seen in ten years, my own choice), we were trying to figure out where and when our plane back home was taking off from. The whole thing is strange, because my Dad hated flying. In the other travel dream, I drove to Topeka by myself and left Mom at home. I think it was because she wasn't feeling well and there was something we needed to do in Topeka. I get there and it was evening and I went to a fast food and for whatever reason got food for the both of us. The next day, I went to this mall, I don't know what I did inside I was coming out of the mall and was talking to some women who were also exiting the mall. Instead of walking directly to the car, I kept walking. At some point I tried to get back to the fast food place I had been at the night before. Then I took out my cell phone, which looked different in my real cell phone and began talking to Mom. I approached this odd little complex that had a strange oval restaurant in it and for some reason got in line to use the phone even though I had a cell phone in my hand. I ended up exiting the place and continued walking until I found a woman working in her yard. I asked her for directions and then the dream ends. The other two dreams involve children. In one I somehow get a baby and then decide I don't like it and abandon it. In the dream I had this morning involved me leaving a child and the woman I left him with trying to make me feel guilty for leaving him. As I am leaving the building, I begin to run and then I start climbing the building to get away even though no one is chasing me. It all takes place at night and then it gets strange from there. I end up apart of some sort of a competition that I never really understand and have somehow changed clothes. Needless to say, all the dreams are strange.